As Primary Two draws to a close after what has been a challenging year, the teachers would like to say a HUGE THANK YOU to all of our pupils and Homework Buddies who have tried out something new by engaging almost exclusively online!
We have worked hard together to provide lessons, homework and feedback in a way we just haven’t had to before. So thank you for your patience and well done for sending in lots of great work; the improvements in confidence and skill have been wonderful to see!
Homework for Primary 2 is NOW COMPLETE, however, after speaking with some parents/carers at Parent’s Night we have collated a list of suggestions to help support our pupils and to give you an idea of the core skills required for Primary 3. Please be reassured that these are just suggestions and we would fully encourage you to enjoy your time off!
A pack of support resources for your child will be sent home in preparation for Primary 3 and can be referred to at any time to help maintain or build further confidence prior to returning in August 2021. Aside from these suggestions, we would always advocate providing a good model of reading so that your child can enjoy a story and talk about what they have read/noticed within a book. We will also signpost you to the USEFUL WEBSITES tab on the menu at the top of the P2 page for appropriate Literacy and Numeracy games.
All P2 pupils have worked on and should continue to develop: –
Reading and writing initial sounds (all alphabet single sounds)
Reading and writing stage 1 common words
Handwriting all lowercase and uppercase letters of the alphabet
Writing and counting out items to show the value of numbers to 10
How to add groups of items together to make a larger total within 10
How to take away groups of items to make a smaller total within 10
If a number is ODD (1, 3, 5, 7 or 9) or EVEN (0, 2, 4, 6 or 8)
How to identify the number BEFORE/AFTER/BETWEEN given numbers
How to count up and down in 1s, 2s and 10s.
If your child has been working within FIRST LEVEL, they should know:-
All of the above
All joined phonemes within Active Literacy Stage 1, (sh, th, ch, ng, wh, ph, ee, oo, ck, ai, oy, oa & qu) and use these to spell words
Some joined phonemes within Active Literacy Stage 2, (ay, ea {leaf}, ow {snow}, ue, aw, oi, au, ew, ow {owl}, ou & igh) and use these to spell words
Reading and writing Active Literacy Stage 2 words up to and including the word “right” on the grid
The place value of numbers to 100 – use the language tens and ones and explain, for example, that 18 is 1 ten and 8 ones which equals 10 + 8, or 25 is 2 tens and 5 ones which equals 20 + 5 etc
How to add groups of items together to make a larger total within 20
How to take away groups of items to make a smaller total within 20
How to count up and down in 5s.
To all our Primary 2 pupils, we will miss you, work hard in P3 and if in doubt, sound it out!
Sending our best wishes for the future,
Miss Baillie, Mrs Banks, Mrs Easter, Mrs Kidd, Mrs Saxelby and Miss Telford.
***** Please continue to use the homework jotter that was provided and if you need another, then ensure you email your teacher. *****
Homework tasks have been categorised using a Chilli Challenge format. You should pick ONE of the three challenges in Literacy and Numeracy to complete in your jotter. If pupils would like to complete more than this, that is their choice.
LITERACY HOMEWORK TASKS
– Bug Club book allocation.
– Library book. Remember to RETURN LIBRARY BOOKS on FRIDAY and new books will be PROVIDED ON MONDAY to be enjoyed throughout the week.
– This week we will be learning the joined phoneme “igh“.
–Read the following spelling words.
night
bright
frighten
light
fight
sight
high
might
tight
Use the activity CAPITAL LETTER SPELLING to write the “igh” words above into your jotter three times. Use the handwriting sheet in the front of your homework jotter to help.
– You need to know the following common words:-
who
after
hand
right
– Use the activity CAPITAL LETTER SPELLING to write the “common” words above into your jotter three times too.
MILD CHALLENGE Head out into the sunshine and do exercise spelling. Do an exercise and spell one of your words aloud, repeat this for all of your words. You may wish to pass a ball or item whilst spelling your words instead.
SPICY CHALLENGE Write your spelling words on flash cards and lay them out. Play ‘splat’ with your hands. Have someone read a word aloud and race to splat the word first.
HOT CHALLENGE
Play some games of ‘X and O’s’ with your spelling words and try to get three in a row. You can even take this outdoors and use chalk or other resources to create words. Your Homework Buddy may want to challenge you by making ‘mistakes’ and asking you to check them. If you are unable to do this, you can write some sentences containing your spelling words.
NUMERACY HOMEWORK TASKS
This week we are going to try and fill in the missing numbers from the calculations.
MILD CHALLENGE
– Get 10 small toys, crayons or stones to help you.
– Complete the following calculations.
3 + ___ = 9 9 – ___ = 2
4 + ___ = 10 8 – ___ = 3
1 + ___ = 9 10 – ___ = 1
SPICY CHALLENGE
– Copy and complete the calculations. Which strategy did you use to work them out?
13 + ___ = 19 17 – ___ = 9
18 + ___ = 25 14 – ___ = 5
11 + ___ = 20 20 – ___ = 12
13 + ___ = 22 18 – ___ = 11
HOT CHALLENGE
– Copy and complete the following calculations.
23 + ___ = 39 37 – ___ = 29
41 + ___ = 50 50 – ___ = 38
68 + ___ = 75 70 – ___ = 68
83 + ___ = 100 99 – ___ = 86
100 + ___ = 111 100 – ___ = 89
Send photos of the good work you have completed in an email to your class teacher please. Remember to lay your work out neatly and try really hard with your handwriting and presentation.
We are having a week of lovely weather so the teachers would like you to stay sun safe and get out for fresh air if you can.
Ensure that you read your online Bug Club books this week and your library book if you have one.
Positive Choices Week
Mrs Findlay issued some jobs this week as part of Positive Choices Week and you could try some of these, if you like, instead of the weekly homework that you have been used to on our P2 page.
Check out the list below.
June Article 29: Your right to become the best you can be.
Please choose some activities you would like to try this week.
Create a Positive Thinking Poster with your friends or family.
Catch up with friends and chat about what makes you happy.
Read our Be the Nice Kid Poster – discuss this with your family.
Take it in turns to mime and act out an occupation. Try to guess the jobs.
Think of a different job for every letter of the alphabet.
What job would you like to do in Onthank Primary? Tell us why?
On Friday you can come dressed up as what job you would like to have when you are older or who you would like to be.
